#1795 - Antonio Garcia Martinez

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Basically, long story short, PhD student, drop out of the PhD, go to work at Wall Street.

Wall Street blows up. I come back to tech, right? Or back to tech. I never worked in tech,

but I'd gone to school in Berkeley, and I'd seen kind of the first tech bubble,

so I was kind of vaguely aware of it. Join tech, join ad tech, do my own startup.

Tiny little company, not a big success. Get sold to Twitter. I end up at Facebook a year before

the IPO as one of the early members of the ads team. So if you go browse for shit on the internet,

and you see that same pair of shoes inside your Instagram feed or whatever, I created the very